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    St Finbarr’s Pilgrim Path: Saints and Sunshine

    / July 22, 2026 / 2 Comments

    Nobody warned us about the horseflies. They were out in marauding gangs, mainly attacking from behind. The pain was instant as the female used her scissor-like mouthparts to tear our flesh and lap…

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  • Travel,  Europe,  Morocco,  Spain

    Electric Travels: Highs and Lows

    / December 20, 2025

    The night before we left home for our two-month roadtrip from Ireland to Morocco in our  completely-electric van, I had a dream -more a nightmare – that camels were towing us through the…

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    Electric Travels: A Pause (paws) in Spain.

    / November 24, 2025

    Most days, the air was crisp and clear…except when the locals burnt their mounds of tree clipping , wafting plumes of smoke into the air. The sky was a blinding blue and we…

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  • Morocco,  Travel

    Electric Roadtrip: From the Mountains to the Sea

    / November 9, 2025

    Our washing danced in the breeze on the clothes-line strung up between two olive trees in the rustic campsite in the Rif Mountains in Morocco. The figs had been harvested, and so had…

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  • Morocco,  Travel

    Electric Roadtrip: The Charging Saga

    / October 28, 2025

    Leaving our camping cocoon in Tangier was hard but it had to be done. Waving goodbye to Said, the manager, we headed off in search of EV chargers, making a minor detour to…

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